Boom Town Snap

When Georgie's boss-turned-lover, Nico, offers her a high-stakes job in Canada, she wants to say no. But burdened by debt and swayed by Nico's promises that the gig will be quick and lucrative, Georgie feels she has no choice---even though it means leaving behind the people she loves the most.
Swapping an Australian mining town for the rugged Albertan oilfields, Georgie's finally getting her life back on track. But as the stakes rise at work and at home, Georgie discovers the real reason she got the job----and just what she stands to lose.
Across continents, Jay Martin brings us a novel that will grapple with your heart as it deals with the internal conflict of a woman struggling to balance her professional and personal lives.

Jay Martin lives and works on Whadjuk Noongar Boodjar. After growing up in Melbourne, she travelled widely before landing in Perth, where she studied Asian languages and worked in community development, and later Canberra, where she studied and worked in public policy. Her first book, Vodka and Apple Juice: Travels of an Undiplomatic Wife in Poland, about her three years living in Warsaw, won the Hungerford Award and was published by Fremantle Press in 2018. Having happily resettled back in Fremantle, she swore she would never again live anywhere cold, dark, or more than one direct flight from Perth again. When she was offered a two-year work secondment to Alberta, Canada, she said yes. Jay lives in Fremantle with her husband and a cat with an unlikely name.